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Italian Ambassador to Libya, Giuseppe Perrone, on Saturday denied that Italy is planning to establish a military base in southern Libya."Rumors of Italy establishing a military base in Libya's South are simply fake news," Perrone…

Edinson Cavani scored two superb goals as Uruguay beat Portugal to set up a World Cup quarter-final meeting with France. Defeat for the European champions finished Cristiano Ronaldo's hopes of success in Russia just hours after Lionel…

France are through to the Quarter Finals after a 4-3 victory over Argentina.In one of the games of the tournament so far France took the lead through an Antoine Griezmann penalty after Kylian Mbappe raced past Marcus Rojo…

Libyan businessman Husni Bey told Libyan News on Saturday that "The LNA’s decision to transfer authority of the Ras Lanuf and Es Sider ports to the eastern parallel National Oil Corporation (NOC) is a serious tactical mistake which…

The bodies of three babies have been recovered after a boat carrying around 120 migrants capsized off Libya.The country's coastguard says about 100 of them are missing at sea and feared dead.Another 16 people who had been on…

The European Union said will continue to counter any attempt to trade Libyan oil outside the internationally recognised official channels.The European Union's spokeswoman for foreign affairs, Maja Kocijančič , said the EU had…

The UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres voiced concern at developments in Libya’s oil crescent on Wednesday, calling for de-escalation and the return of oil resources to recognized authorities, his spokesman said in a statement.…

A Libyan national, Ahmed Abu Khattala, convicted in the deadly 2012 Benghazi attacks that killed a U.S. ambassador and three other Americans was sentenced to 22 years in prison Wednesday by a federal judge in Washington.…

Holders Germany crashed out of the World Cup at the group stage on Wednesday in one of the biggest shocks in the tournament's history - failing to make it past the opening round for the first time since 1938.The…